Return to work rates of workers compensation patients with lumbar radiculopathy following epidural steroid injection

Return to work rates in worker's compensation patients were 10.4 % after treatment with lumbar ESIs. It appears that even with treatment of lumbar ESIs, worker's compensation patients with lumbar radiculopathy had a low chance of returning to work.

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Interventional Pain Medicine
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2026-02-05
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2026.100736
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Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
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Abstract

Return to work rates in worker's compensation patients were 10.4 % after treatment with lumbar ESIs. It appears that even with treatment of lumbar ESIs, worker's compensation patients with lumbar radiculopathy had a low chance of returning to work.

Interventional Pain MedicineVol. 5(1)
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